The Safe Place by Elizabeth Prentiss

Katie Lloyd Photography

The Safe Place.

I went to Jesus with a prayer

Upon a suppliant's knee;

Low at His cross I laid me down,

Nor asked His face to see,

Yet whispered in His ear the tale

No mortal ear could bear:

The story of a faithless heart,

And of its self-despair.

I told Him how my feet had slipped,

How often gone astray;

How oft my heart refused to love,

My lips refused to pray.

In stammering words that none but He

Hearing could understand,

I made complaint of careless work

Done by a careless hand.

Of wasted hours, of idle words,

Of love oft waxing dim,

Of silence when a warmer heart

Had testified of Him.

I owned my weak and selfish ways;

How often all day long,

Moanings and sighs had filled His ears

To whom I owed a song.

And what said He? What whispered words

Responded unto mine?

Did He reproach me? Did His love

On me refuse to shine?

Nay, thus He spoke, and bent Him low

To reach my anxious ear,

My child, thou doest well to lie

As thou art lying here ;

I knew thy human weakness, knew

Each lurking bosom sin,

Knew it, and yet in loving grace

Thy heart I stooped to win.

I knew that thou wouldst often fall,

Poor work for Me wouldst do,

Wouldst give Me only half thy love,

Give praises faint and few.

And yet I choose thee. Be content

And since thou canst not fly

To heights by dearer souls attained,

Let it suffice to lie

Here at My feet; it is the place

To which My loved ones flee;

They find it sweet, and so shalt thou;

'Tis a safe place for thee.

Yes, it is sweet, and it is safe!

And here will I abide;

Sinful, and yet forgiven, sad,

And yet so satisfied. 

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